Virbia costata

Virbia costata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Virbia
Species:	V. costata
Binomial name
	Virbia costata; (Stretch, 1884)
Synonyms
	Crocota costata Stretch 1885; Holomelina costata; Crocota opelloides Graef 1887; Crocota intermedia Graef 1887; Crocota parvula Neumögen & Dyar 1893; Eubaphe cocciniceps Schaus 1901; Eubaphe pallipennis Barnes & McDunnough, 1918;

Virbia costata is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Richard Harper Stretch in 1884. It is found in the western United States, ranging to western Oklahoma in the east and Colorado in the north.

The length of the forewings is about 11.7 mm for males and 13.5 mm for females. The male forewings are pale pinkish buff suffused with light salmon. The hindwings are flesh ocher with edges fringed with pale pinkish buff scales. The female forewings are solid clay to solid olive brown with salmon along the costal margin. The hindwings are salmon. Adults are on wing in July in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Oklahoma. In the Big Bend region of Texas, adults are on wing in June and again in early August.

Larvae have been reared on plantain species.[1]

References

Zaspel, J. M.; Weller, S. J. & Cardé, R. T. (2008). "A faunal review of Virbia (formerly Holomelina) for North America North of Mexico (Arctiidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini)". Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. 48 (3): 59-118.

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[1] Zaspel, J. M.; Weller, S. J. & Cardé, R. T. (2008). "A faunal review of Virbia (formerly Holomelina) for North America North of Mexico (Arctiidae: Arctiinae: Arctiini)". Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. 48 (3): 59-118.